But Kal-L was evil. Those sideburns of his? They weren't really sideburns or even hair, they were horns. And, he was locked up for years with one old lady and two underaged teenaged boys. And he always paraded around in his costume.

Because, you love Cosmic Boy and hope to one day meet someone just like him, so you can marry and bear him many many strong manly children. Course, you'll change your last name, and then be known as Rokk_Boy.

I've got great child-bearing hips.


(Okay not true - I don't think I've even got hips and that's my expert medical opinion. )

Well... that's what they invented C-Sections for.

I'm not a Legion fan at all, but Legion of Three Worlds was wildly entertaining. And the Perez artwork was very easy on the eyes.

I am a Legion fan, and I didn't like Legion of Three Worlds #1.

I did like:

The Setup/Monologue by Time Trapper plucking "Superboy".

The repeated use of "Superboy" in the text.

The Superman Museum.

I didn't like:

Time Trapper and the Roaches. It gives me a nice idea for a "Theme Team" for an eventual Heroclix team (using Brood and HrC Aliens) but the Time Trapper is ALONE at the end of time....no ifs, ands or buts.

The casual "I'll teleport in some Legions from other dimensions" remark...especially in light of the difficulty of the mission TO THE PHANTOM ZONE IN THE SAME ISSUE.

The well-worn: "Um, we don't like you so you have to disband or leave Earth" plot device. Not only has that been done a dozen times in the past (several times in LSH history) but it exposes a major flaw with how the LSH operates...that is, they ARE the premier team of their era...but they basically have ZERO administrative duties...whose bright idea is it to send a short-fused explosive member into negotiations with the UP council? (in this incarnation, it is some "Pirate/Def Leppard" wannabe who claims to be Lightning Lad).

Costumes. I'm sorry, but this was a bad choice...especially considering that Perez was doing the pencils. The best pages of art: The hall of 1000 Olsen's and the Reboot Legion splash page (which was colored too darkly IMO).

As for which Legion? It's supposedly the "double-plus unboot" Legion. I'm extremely disappointed because IF this is meant to be the "post-Magic Wars, TMK-never-happened" team, a long-time reader like me NEEDS more visual clues (i.e. Levitz era costumes). It's a dumb choice to go back to 1988 and project them forward 20 years and claim "that's THE Legion" and make them look and act like a totally brand new spin on the LSH.

So, tidge, you're saying... what... B+?

I said the same thing when Superman spouted off with that...but it's Superman, so i can take it. He believes in the best in people, even Luthor. I still find it conspicous that in his exploits recap it was never said that he killed the E-2 Superman...almost as if in 30 centurys or whatever, maybe that's not how it ended up...

Well before FC:LOTW I had never even heard of the legion


but... I love


Superboy Prime!


SO I picked it up


and was impressed


This and Rogues Revenger are MUCH better then the main FC story line

(which I am threw with)

Not according to Legion of Three Worlds. They were able to use Superboy throughout. Just don't say it where SBP can hear you.

Solid C. If the focus of the rest of the series shifts to the Legionnaires, and the colors brightens considerably, I can easily see this series improving.

From my POV, the biggest obstacle I will have to this series is the following: The Legion (as an ongoing series of titles) has pulled every trick in the book when it comes to retro-active continuity changes. We've seen clones, we've had a pocket universe, we've had repeated time travel, we've had alternate existences, we've seen other side dimensions (Phantom Zone, Bgzztl Buffer Zone, 5th Dimension, Marzall, Teall)...we've even had L.E.G.I.O.N. (subtly re-referenced in the RJ Brande/Durlan reveal) but we've never had the Legion "casually" refer to parallel Legions a la Earth-2/Earth-1.

In addition to this peculiar change to "Geoff John's Legion History" is that this is the FIRST CHOICE of Brainiac 5! He doesn't consider calling the Heroes of Lallor? The Legion Subs? The Legion of Super-Pets? Kid Psycho?

I'm disappointed that the subtext of the "Geoff John's Legion" was "none of that stuff you didn't like after the Levitz era didn't happen"...but instead LO3W reads like "a bunch of stuff happened that would have caused me to drop the book anyway happened instead."

You know I was kidding, right?

Humor...it is a difficult concept.

Superman/Batman #51 - Stand aside X-Babies, it's time to meet the Li'l League! I can see how some people might not like the cutesy stuff but this issue manages to keep a nice balance of fun and silly. The chibi versions of the Justice League that Superman was hallucinating a few issues back (while high on magic kryptonite) suddenly show up on Earth. Confused about why everything is suddenly so much bigger they get in the inevitable mistaken identity fight with the real Bats and Supes. Turns out that Mxy created them to cheer up the World's Finest since they're "so unhappy these days. Everything's "Darkseid" this and "Crisis" that." So many little touches make this book such a fun read. The 'astral depictions' of the creatures Vixen channels appear as stuffed animals, the girls fawning over big Robin, the not-so-tragic origins of Li'l Supes and Bat, everyone can see the hearts floating over Li'l Supes' head as he crushes on Lois... Things are going to be kicked up a notch next issue when the Li'l Injustice League comes to play.

Rann-Thanagar Holy War #4 - The good guys try to fight off Synnar on Hardcore Station but things don't go so well so Adam Strange zeta beams to Throneworld after learning that Bizarro showed up there. That's bad news for Gavyn who needs the big guy to fight off Lady Styx's invasion of his world. Before Starman can stop him, Strange zetas the three of them back to Hardcore. The two new heavy hitters are able to turn the tide of the battle just enough to destroy the temporal device used to bring back Synnar and this has the intended effect of ending the temporal abberations back on Rann. Seeing these things fade away, Sardath and the Rannians decide that maybe their god doesn't want them to execute Hawkman but they're still going to war. After a strategic withdrawal from Hardcore, the heroes send their heaviest hitters back to Throneworld only to find out that Styx was able to destroy/convert the entire in the span of minutes.

DC/Wildstorm Dreamwar #5 - Lots of fighting around the Wildstorm world now that Chimera has summoned the DC villains to take on the combined DC/Wildstorm hero alliance. In a nod to continuity Majestic admits to meeting the real Superman but he didn't mention it earlier to avoid unneeded confusion. Fights include Supes, Apollo, and Majestic taking on Doomsday, Midnighter tangling with Joker, and Stormwatch and the Legion vs Qwardian Thunderers and Validus. It looks like Chimera has one last trick up his sleeve as he begins to hatch something out of the moon to destroy the entire Earth.

Tangent: Superman's Reign #6 - Our Batman breaks into Halo (Tanget Supes' living database) to learn about the history of the man in charge. After triggering alarms he teams up with Tangent Batman to escape. The remaining Secret Six members meet up with Hex and Lori Lemaris and, while they'll both help, Lori refuses to put on the Joker costume again after all the torment in brought her under Superman's regime. Tan-Bats brings his double to his castle where he, the Secret Six members, Hex, and Tan-GL have formed The Outsiders. Backup story was basically the telling of Tan-GL's origin(s).

Flash #243 - Wally and Jai rage against Grodd after watching Iris die. Only it turns out it was all an illusion; Iris is fine and the father-son duo just beat up Nzame (the albino gorilla with healing powers) who freaks out and runs away only to be captured by Grodd. Flash and Iris take on the evil gorilla and Iris uses some Speed Force magic to desynchronize Grodd's mind and body and he vibrates out of sight. Gorilla science reveals that it's not the twin's DNA that's causing their aging and Wally realizes that it has to do with the Speed Force. He takes the kids into the Force and sees that they're infected by some sort of black goo that's implied to be an aspect of the Black Racer. He sucks it into himself and somehow survives without explaination. The twins revert back to being about ten years old, complete with the powers they had then, and should age normally from now on. With their health no longer a concern Wally is remotivated to fight the good fight and not worry about money and whatnot.